RAIN 20090531

Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.

Government Wrestles With Social Media Records Retention Policies
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... which asks the public to contribute ideas that will eventually lead to
a new policy on openness, including a category on records management. ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217700689&subSection=News
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Duke's had chance to reopen if it stopped serving Italian ...
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA
... unless those recipes constituted 'trade secrets' as defined in Ohoi's
Uniform Trade Secrets Act.” Anne Mantia filed the federal
trademark-infringement ...
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/taste/entries/2009/05/28/dukes_could_reopen_if_it_stopp.html
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Long-lost Lincoln letter returned
msnbc.com - USA
National Archivists discovered the Lincoln letter being sold online in
2006. It originally had been torn or fallen from an 1880 bound volume of
government ...
<http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/28/1946616.aspx>



Last orders at oldest brewery
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
... Heineken presented the remaining Beamish and Crawford archives, dating
back to late 1700s, to Brian McGee, Cork City and County archivist. ...
<http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0529/breaking7.htm>



Archives employees prepare Civil War documents
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
But, according to archives employees, the documents were scattered across
the many types of files at the facility. There has not been a large, ...
<http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/733209.html>



National Archives Offers Reward for Missing Hard Drive
Washington Post - United States
By Paul Duggan The National Archives offered a $50000 reward today for
information leading to the recovery of a missing computer hard drive
containing a ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052901973.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Pilots Allege That Gulfstream Falsified Work-Hour Records
Wall Street Journal - USA
... flight records stemmed from clerical -- not intentional -- errors
transferring flight-hour data from aircraft logbook records to electronic
records. ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355424975464491.html>



FBI Releases Bonnie and Clyde Files Online
AllGov - Santa Monica,CA,USA
A larger set of documents (947 pages) came from the investigative file that
the bureau uncovered recemtly in its Dallas field.
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http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/FBI_Releases_Bonnie_and_Clyde_Files_Online_90529
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Russian History In The Dock
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
The holy-of-holies of Russian archives is the 'Presidential Archive.' If
Medvedev doesn't like what historians say, he could throw open the archives
...
<http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_History_In_The_Dock/1742650.html>



A Modest Solution to E-Discovery Problems
Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
A general counsel usually reacts by retaining an outside lawyer who
specializes in e-discovery and records management. It's a smart first
move....
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202431063973>



Social media creating headaches for government records officers
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
The growing popularity of social media and cloud computing are becoming a
problem for the National Archives and Records Administration's
archivists,...
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http://www.smartbrief.com/news/comptia/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=2ACCB441-BD46-4021-A39D-AA1E86C5C62F&copyid=31117682-5C62-4933-AAAF-3BA4880030E7
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Bottom of filing cabinet yields top-drawer discovery
Globe and Mail - Canada
Archivists at Brock University dig into the mystery of how 13th-century
document wound up in their offices in St. Catharines From Saturday's Globe
and Mail, ...<
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bottom-of-filing-cabinet-yields-top-drawer-discovery/article1161427/
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Do you know where your archives are?
ITworld.com - Framingham,MA,USA
It was recently reported that the National Archives and Record
Administration told Congress that they either lost, or had stolen from
them--they're not sure ...
<http://www.itworld.com/storage/68573/do-you-know-where-your-archives-are>



RAF Commander admits to shredding spy plane documents
Times Online - UK
AN RAF commander destroyed a number of official documents after the loss of
a Nimrod spy plane and its 14-man crew over Afghanistan, it emerged last
week. ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6395963.ece>



Ease The Pain Of E-Discovery
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
These teams set policies for data retention and preservation, oversee
implementation of these policies, and handle e-discovery work related to
specific ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217700666
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Newly discovered letters show literary luminary was in contact ...
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
(Courtesy of the State Archives of the Russian Federation) One of the
letters was to well-known revolutionary Nikolai Russell, while the rest
were to ...
<http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20090530p2a00m0na022000c.html>



Agencies seek to destroy tons of records
News On 6 - Tulsa,OK,USA
Individual state agencies handle destruction of their records, often using
outside vendors. Workers at Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid
destroy ...
<http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=10451017>






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